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The Art of a Lie
When words cascade out of your mouth
Hollow but mesmerizing
Flirting with the ear, appealing to emotion
This comes naturally, without a pause or thoughtful notion
When you stare into humanity's eyes
Their heads are filled with a great void of lies
They follow and hang on your every word
Not knowing what they are hearing is completely absurd
Your words dance their way into the imagination
Filling heads with false hope and delusion
Blinded by your illustrious illusion
Imbibing thought, disrupting contemplation
Each word spoken is like a plague
Spreading into bodies
Ensnaring the mind, bewitching, controlling
Painting the picture of what you want them to believe
When you rob them like an infamous thieve
When even you see reality as vague
Your own onslaught of lies has crept into your mind
Rendering you helpless, afflicting you habitually blind
Blind to truth, to realism, to fact
Familiar to only fiction, false hope, and synthetic ideas
Your lies have ruined your moral being
And have twisted you into what it is no one is seeing
This ghastly mess of a human
Has drained your soul and filled it with forged emotion
Until the day you die
You will inevitably have lived one preposterous lie.
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I like how this poem manages to rhyme without constricting the writing-that is hard to get right. Good job!
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